The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.